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Mack Yearwood was part of the Citrus County "Wanted of the Week" series. He put the wanted poster on Facebook. His profile photo later helped police to identify him as they arrested him.

Noah talks to author John Crellin about Arthur Lee "Tommie" Bass a legendary herbalist, who died last week at age 88. Bass explored the powers of over 300 herbs to ease pain. He lived in the mountains of Alabama, but his fame spread farther. Bass treated the people of Cherokee County for free. Crellin edited "Plain Southern Eating: From the Reminiscences of A.L. Tommie Bass, Herbalist." Crellin says the traditional salves gave way to health store pills over the years.

Robert and Noah bring us excerpts from today's arguments by attorneys for George W. Bush and Al Gore before the Florida Supreme Court, in the Gore contest of the state election results. Gore attorney David Boies argued in favor of hand counting thousands of ballots from Palm Beach and Miami-Dade Counties. Bush attorney Barry Richard argued against such a count. The justices appeared concerned with the limited amount of time left to do any further ballot counting, as well as the question of whether they have any jurisdiction in the case.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's oral arguments before the Supreme Court on the presidential election. Most of the questions raised by the justices seemed aimed at understanding what role, if any, they play in reviewing the Florida State Supreme Court's decisions. Attorneys for George W. Bush argued that the Florida court decision extending the deadline for counties to report vote tallies was unconstitutional. Al Gore's lawyers said the state supreme court is the final interpreter of state election law and the U.S. Supreme Court should defer to the Florida justices.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on briefs filed with the Supreme Court today, in advance of tomorrow's oral arguments on election questions. The Bush campaign is asking the Supreme Court to say that the Florida State Supreme Court was wrong to extend the deadline for counties to report voting results. Such a decision would make it too late for the Gore campaign to contest the results. The Gore campaign is asking for the Supreme Court to uphold the state court. But also, in its brief, the Gore campaign is warning that if the Florida legislature plans to select is own delegates to the Electoral College, the Gore camp thinks it has legal grounds to stop them.

The book is based on Art Spiegelman's parents' story of surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp and has been included in school curricula since its release in 1980.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office put out a call for daytime drinkers to come to one of their stations — saying "we buy, you drink." They need intoxicated people for field sobriety test training.

Get your bid ready because items that have been lost or abandoned at the airport will go up for sale next month at the Allegheny County Airport Authority's twelfth annual auction.

Besse Cooper, the world's oldest living person, turned 116 over the weekend. For her birthday, Walton County, Ga., named a bridge after her. Over at Facebook headquarters, tech savvy Florence Detlor was honored by Mark Zuckerberg. At 101, Detlor is recognized as the social network's oldest registered user.

Residents in a county outside London had insisted they'd spotted a lion on the loose. One couple in Essex even took a fuzzy photo of it. Police took the reports seriously and even sent two helicopters to aid in the hunt. But local zoos report no big cats missing, and authorities now suspect that this was a tall tale.